HP storage formats on ss80 protocol disks - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Apr 2003

"Peter Brown" &lt;peterbrown10(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote:
...
  It strikes me that an application that enables the
information on a cs/80 
 drive to be pulled onto a PC, backed-up on another format (e.g. CD ROM) and 
 then written back to the cs80 drive would be useful - does such an 
 application already exist? Well if you have an HP9000 computer running HP-UX you
can use dd to
get a copy of the disk image.

...
  It looks as though the first block on the disk (block
0) contains  some drives do, others are hard partitioned (by the drive logic)
to 2 or more partitions, so what you are looking at may be just the
catalog of the first partition.

NetBSD (an Open Source Unix clone) supports the HP 9000 architecture
so the kernel source code (available from www.netbsd.org) contains
drives to access cs80 mass storage devices over HP-IB.

**vp